Monday, October 14, 2013

Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 '14

The Mustang is one of the most famous cars in the world since 1964 with its first generation.
One year after the Mustang was released, Ford wanted a enhanced version of its car for run at the same level of its rivals in the US races. To design this car Ford hired the driver and car designer Carroll Shelby (1923-2012).

The first Mustang modified by Shelby was the GT350, released in 1965, and the next year(1966) Ford and Shelby showed the legendary Shelby GT500. The collaboration between Shelby and Ford continues today.
And this is my interpretation of the current version of that historic collaboration.

The real one.

This creation is made in scale 1:8. The total size is: 75 studs of length, 29 wide and 21 of high (60x23x17 cm)

The sequential gearbox is an improved version of my previous Caterham ones (3rd Gen V2), with 5+R and auto-clutch.

The speeds ratio:

R - 2.08:1
1 - 1.67:1
2 - 1.25:1
3 - 1:1
4 - 1:1.33
5 - 1:1.67

The max speed in 5th speed is 3 kph (~2 mph)
It has a gear indicator in the interior, between the front seats.

V8 fake engine under the bonnet.

A complete bodywork with openable doors, bonnet and rear truck hood.
The bonnet can be opened from the interior using a little lever just front of the right seat.
Also the doors have lock, you need turn the door handle to open it.

It has 4 full size seats and folding front seats.

For make more easy the gearbox tests the car in has a rear support to keep the rear axle lifted

The suspension is based in the real one: front McPherson axle and a rear 4-links live axle.

126 comments:

A greath MOC and worth every second of waithing but I still have the feeling that I'm missing something (just litlle thigns) like PF lights and some more info of (by example ) the gearbox, suspension and the bodywork. I don't know but I just have the feeling that you're giving less and less info every time when you create a new moc.but afterall it still is a great moc and I don't want to offend you I still have a lot of respect for you and you're buildingskills are way above mine but that's just the way it is

can't wait for the instructions! do you know about when they will be available and about how much they will cost? also do you think it could be built in a different color like blue without major modifications? thanks.

I don't know the price of the isntructions yet, but I think it will be similar to the Defender ones.About the color, I think it is impossible build the car in other color, you can change the white color easily, but with red part it is almost imposible, maybe doing some changes you can do it in blue, but it will be much more expensive.

Great job as always! Honestly we have become accustomed too well with the 911, the Defender and the Peterbilt ... and this seems to have a little less features, but it is fantastic and beyond my ability!I'm curious to see the 3rd Gen V2 Gearbox,...the one on the Defender was impressive engineered and was fantastic to build and study.

You really should make this a LEGO CUUSOO entry. I'm sure lot's of people will support it! It's extremely amazing and i'm sure my next LEGO project will be building your Mustang, as soon as the instructions are available. Great job, i love it!

Having bought the instructions for the Defender I'm very much looking forward to this one. I understand the full instructions can take another 2 months, but is it perhaps possible to already release the partlist for this model?If not, no problem, we'll just have to be patient...

Why not add an airtank airbag system to your next model? It's just finding an empty balloon, and press the hoses from the pneumatic system through the holes in the lego technic bricks with the balloon wrapped around the end of the hose. I'm a big fan of your cars!

Good question, there are not good set to get parts por this MOC, probably none gets you more than 20-25% of the parts. But I think that the 42000 and the 8070 can have some usefull parts.The partlist will be published at the same time as the instructions. Now I have a part list, but problaby it will change a little bit to the final ones.

Sheepo hi i have a big problem. I wanted so the bodywork going to make it part 32016 to get anywhere! if it is available anywhere, it costs about 3 euros each. I wonder how you have solved it. I would like this question to get an answer.

Good question... This car was designed under request for store, they wanted it in manual version, but when I went to deliver it, they decide that they didn't want it. So in that moment I had a huge car, with complete instructions but with all its functions manual. So I modified the car to add sequential gearbox and all others motors, but I didn't want to redo the instructions, so I only added the new features over the "old"chassis, and in the old chassis had not enough space to use XL motors.

I purchased the plans and completed the model. It is great and I had much fun collecting the parts, learning about bricklink, and then completing the model. It is beautiful and certainly the most complex project I have built. Your creativity and technical skills are amazing. Everything works but I am not sure about the gearbox. I don't think it is shifting, but I am not sure how to use the remote to shift the gears. Before I take it apart and try to find an error, if indeed there is a mistake I made, could you please say how the gears are to be shifted? I am just using one lever.

Hey Sheepo. I am building a car that has more weight in the rear (Almost rear 60%, front 40%). When I compress the rear suspension (multilink suspension), it reacts the same as your mustang. Is that a geometry issue or is that realistic?

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